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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. On page 1 of "Postcolonial Love Poem," what technique is used in the lines, "The seeds sleep like geodes beneath hot feldspar sand"?
(a) Metonymy.
(b) Allusion.
(c) Metaphor.
(d) Personification.

2. In "From the Desire Field," to what creature does the speaker compare herself?
(a) A cat.
(b) An owl.
(c) A wolf.
(d) A bull.

3. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," the entire poem explains why the speaker is like a god. What technique is this an example of?
(a) Juxtaposition.
(b) Symbolism.
(c) Paradox.
(d) Conceit.

4. In "Wolf OR-7," what word does the speaker say can also mean "touch" (32)?
(a) Bite.
(b) Howl.
(c) Know.
(d) Love.

5. In "Blood-Light," what does the speaker say the story is about?
(a) Stars.
(b) Blood.
(c) Love.
(d) Land.

6. In "Ink-Light," to what does the speaker compare her desire?
(a) A carnivorous plant.
(b) A train.
(c) A bomb.
(d) A jaguar.

7. In "Ink-Light," what technique is employed in the line, "I touch her with the eyes of my skin" (34)?
(a) Synesthesia.
(b) Oxymoron.
(c) Synechdoche.
(d) Meiosis.

8. On page 9 of "Catching Copper," how do the brothers walk their bullet?
(a) "Like a bee."
(b) "Like a date."
(c) "With a limp."
(d) "With a moan."

9. In "Manhattan Is a Lenape Word," what is the literal meaning of the figurative lines, "an American drone finds then loves/ a body--the radiant nectar it seeks" (15)?
(a) The drone is following someone.
(b) The drone has wounded someone.
(c) The drone is taking photographs.
(d) The drone has crashed somewhere.

10. What does the title "The Mustangs" refer to?
(a) The animals the speaker's parents raised.
(b) A basketball team.
(c) The speaker and the beloved.
(d) Cars often seen on the reservation.

11. On page 21 of "Skin-Light," what other name for Teotlachco is given?
(a) "Light-well."
(b) "Lamp-Land."
(c) "Calabash."
(d) "Chalcedony."

12. In "Asterion's Lament," what does the phrase, "Go forward, always down" represent (27)?
(a) The title of a Whitman poem.
(b) Commentary about U.S. history.
(c) Directions from the forest to the sea.
(d) Ariadne's advice to Theseus.

13. In "Asterion's Lament," what does the speaker say is another name for "water" (27)?
(a) "Jet."
(b) "Thread."
(c) "Holy."
(d) "Map."

14. What does the title "Catching Copper" literally refer to?
(a) Working in a mine.
(b) Playing a game with pennies.
(c) Getting shot.
(d) Capturing an escaped dog.

15. What is distinctive about the structure of "Blood-Light"?
(a) It uses ballad meter.
(b) If compressed, the lines would form a free-verse version of a sonnet.
(c) It is the only rhymed poem in the collection.
(d) It is grouped into two-line stanzas.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "From the Desire Field," how does "soy una sonámbula" function as an allusion?

2. In "They Don't Love You Like I Love You," who tells the speaker "Don't stray" (19)?

3. In "Like Church," the beloved's shoulders are compared to "hematite clocks" (29). What is hematite?

4. In "Run'n'Gun," what is the rhetorical purpose of the description of the Indian children's shoes and socks?

5. In "These Hands, If Not Gods," what does "the seven days of your body" allude to (7)?

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